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THIS WEEK'S TOP HEADLINE: People gather in solidarity of the victims of a terror attack against a satirical newspaper, in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 7. Masked gunmen shouting "Allahu akbar!" stormed the Paris offices of a satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing 12 people, including the paper's editor, before escaping in a getaway car. It was France's deadliest terror attack in living memory. Photo: Associated Press/Thibault Camus

A firefighter sprays water on the Norman Atlantic ferry after it was towed into the port of Brindisi, southern Italy, Saturday, Jan. 3. For a second day, fierce heat from a slow-burning blaze kept firefighters and other investigators on Saturday from searching the hold and vehicle decks of a Greek ferry for more bodies. At least 11 people perished in the pre-dawn blaze on Dec. 28 aboard the Norman Atlantic, on a voyage between Greece and Italy. Authorities fear more bodies might be inside the vehicle deck where the fire began. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
A sign praising the New York Police Department hangs outside Aievoli Funeral Home before the wake of NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu, Saturday, Jan. 3, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Liu and his partner, Officer Rafael Ramos, were killed Dec. 20, as they sat in their patrol car on a Brooklyn street. The shooter, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, later killed himself. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
A Filipino man sells shirts with images of Pope Francis for 150 pesos each ($3) outside a church in downtown Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Jan. 4. Pope Francis will visit this predominantly Catholic country on Jan. 15-19. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
First lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama wave and make the “shaka” gesture as they board Air Force One, Saturday, Jan. 3, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, Hawaii, to return to Washington with their family after their annual family vacation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Salvage workers bring out part of a Piper PA-34’s fuselage, wing, and landing gear from a crash site Sunday, Jan. 4, in Kuttawa, Ky. Officials from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the crash site Sunday in Kentucky in which a 7-year-old girl survived and four of her family members were killed. Authorities said the child, dressed in a short-sleeve shirt, shorts and one sock, walked about a mile (more than a kilometer) in near-freezing temperatures through thick briar patches and woods before finding a home where she sought help. The plane went down in a deeply wooded area and required special machinery to remove. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
Penguins swim in their pool during the annual stock take at London Zoo, Monday, Jan. 5. Caring for more than 750 different species, London Zoo keepers started the New Year with the task of counting every single animal. With three Sumatran tiger cubs adding vital numbers to the European conservation breeding programme, the birth of six critically-endangered Philippine crocodiles and the arrival of nine Humboldt penguin chicks, all of the new additions will be added to the records. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
People enjoy the Cabalgata Los Reyes Magos (Cavalcade of the three kings) the day before Epiphany, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Monday, Jan. 5. It is a parade symbolizing the coming of the Magi to Bethlehem following the birth of Jesus. In Spain and many Latin American countries Epiphany is the day when gifts are exchanged. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
Todd, left, and Jeff Delmay, celebrate as they leave the courthouse after having attended a hearing in which a Miami-Dade Circuit Judge cleared the way for gay and lesbian couples to marry, Monday, Jan. 5, in Miami. Judge Sarah Zabel provided a jump-start Monday to Florida’s entry as the 36th state where gays and lesbians can legally marry, saying she saw no reason why same-sex couples couldn’t immediately get their licenses in Miami-Dade County ahead of a midnight launch statewide. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
The illumination of the world famous Cologne cathedral goes out during a rally called ‘Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West’ (PEGIDA) in Cologne, Germany, Monday evening, Jan. 5. The church wants to protest against intolerance of the anti Islamic movement, that came up in many German cities. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
A police officer stands outside the federal courthouse in Boston, Monday, Jan. 5, for the first day of jury selection in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
Ice forms as waves crash along Lake Michigan in below-normal temperatures near Oak Street Beach, Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, in Chicago. Forecasters expect significant snowfall and freezing temperatures this week in northern Illinois. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, waits with his girlfriend, Sandra Lee, while the body of his father, Mario Cuomo, is carried into Church of St. Ignatius Loyola for his funeral in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 6. Cuomo, 82, died in his Manhattan home on Jan. 1, hours after his son was inaugurated for a second term. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, kisses House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. after being re-elected to a third term during the opening session of the 114th Congress, as Republicans assume full control for the first time in eight years, Tuesday, Jan. 6, on Capitol Hill in Washington. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais )
A woman reacts as a goatee is superimposed on an image of her face in the Future Mirror at the Panasonic booth during the International CES Tuesday, Jan. 6, in Las Vegas. A camera in the mirror allows the Future Mirror to display a moving image of your face with added facial hair or makeup in real time. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Ellen DeGeneres, left, and Portia de Rossi arrive at the People’s Choice Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Wednesday, Jan. 7, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., a Democratic sponsor of the long-stalled Keystone XL pipeline bill, flanked by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., right, and Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., left, makes his plea at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee markup on the controversial project, Thursday, Jan. 8, on Capitol Hill in Washington. As promised by Republican leaders who now hold the majority in Congress, the Keystone bill is at the top of their agenda after it fell short of passage in December when Democrats ruled the Senate. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
An injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting, at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s office, in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. Masked gunmen stormed the offices of a French satirical newspaper Wednesday, killing at least 11 people before escaping, police and a witness said. The weekly has previously drawn condemnation from Muslims. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
In this photo provided by exploreClarion.com/Bauer Truck Repair, vehicles remain at the scene of a fatal 18-vehicle pileup that occurred in whiteout conditions Wednesday, Jan. 7, on Interstate 80 near Clarion, Pa. State police said that two people who died were struck after exiting their vehicles at the scene. The victims’ identities were not being released until families could be notified. (AP Photo/exploreClarion.com/Bauer Truck Repair)
People pay tribute to the victims of the satirical newspaper “Charlie Hebdo”, in Marseille, southern France, Thursday, Jan. 8, a day after masked gunmen stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper and killed 12 people. French police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men — one with a terrorism conviction and a history in jihadi networks — in the methodical killing of 12 people at a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammad. Placard reads “I am Charlie.” (AP Photo/Claude Paris)